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Travel Blogs from Tokushima
Naruto Whirlpools
... very impressive.
Afterwards we drove back to Takamatsu to the Mount Yashima. There we walked a little around and enjoyed the view over the city and the sea.
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Oh high school and rice paddys!
... us to the local high school where we meet with the principal and vice principal who give us a powerpoint presentation about the school, then we meet with the English teachers in small groups to discuss similarities and differences in teaching. Their English, thankfully, is pretty good. We hear again that the teaching style is not very flexible and teachers do not have much control over how they teach. These teachers seem to want to ...
Naruto Whirlpools
... passages only with fences, but because it was rainy on the day, the passages were all closed. I couldn't help but enjoy views of whirlpools through windows. It was just OK and not worth paying JPY500.
Anyway, I had no time to linger around Naruto, because I had to get on a flight at Osaka. I took a bus at 2:37 to get on a flight at 8:25. It seemed that I had plenty of time, but on my way to the airport, I got on a wrong train at Kobe and the ...
Spinning Water
... pic. My lunch became what I could pick out of their souvenir stand.
I got a ticket and waited in line. The boat could hold 80 people or so. It had a glass bottom and an upper viewing deck. The straights near Naruto form a natural occurring whirl pool that peaks once a month depending on the moon cycle. They ...
Ritsurin Garden, Yashima, Awa Dance, Arima Onsen
... it was out of season, when I visited Tokushima. Then it seemed the city had nothing to see. Of course, the city also knows that, so they built Awa Dance Memorial Hall, which made it possible to watch Awa Dance all year around. Dancers from famous Awa Dance teams perform in turns in its theatre every day. I was supposed to watch the performance starting at four. So I arrived at the theatre at half past three. To my surprise, however, the performance had ...